Influence of the prior distribution on the risk of the Bayes rule
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Influence of the prior distribution on the risk of the Bayes rule
zbMATH Open document ID: 0772.62003
DOI: 10.1007/BF01046769
published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability
publication date: 1993-05-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The risk influence function is defined and studied. The relationship between unimodal prior distributions and the shape of the frequentist risk is examined.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62C10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62A01
zbMATH DE Number: 167538
zbMATH Keywords: directional derivative
zbMATH Keywords: Bayes rule
zbMATH Keywords: convexity
zbMATH Keywords: peakedness
zbMATH Keywords: risk influence function
zbMATH Keywords: unimodal prior distributions
zbMATH Keywords: frequentist risk
author: Andrew L. Rukhin
reviewed by: Krzysztof Piasecki
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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